Matt and Marlie: The best week this year!!!

We had a really amazing week. So get your popcorn and get ready for some fun!!

After 3 years of Doug playing catch with Matt...or maybe I should call it "chase", Matt can catch the ball! I know this probably seems silly to most of you, but it was a big deal in the Maziur house. We were all outside on Monday and as always, Doug and Matt were playing catch while Marlie and I played. Me with one eye on the ball to make sure we don't get beemed in the head. Then I realized that there they were...throwing and catching the ball. It was so awesome!

Then my shy Marlie came out of her shell. She spent all of tball practice playing with Emma instead of standing right by my side. She is also speaking much more clearly and I'm starting to understand all her songs. At dinner she busted out with the pledge of alliegence followed by "your a grand old flag...". She knew every word! It was so cute and she taught me the words. Great song by the way. She also sings the months of the year. She is learning so much every day.

We spent a few days out in the yard pulling weeds. Matt is the best helper ever. When we started he told me there was "like 60 100 (yes we don't understand thousands yet) weeds and it would take 60 days to pull them all". It got sunny and hot so I told him we needed to go inside and he insisted on finishing the job. He's got a great work ethic... I can tell already. Of course it will take us 60 days to get all the weeds, but at least it's a start. Marlie was not interested at all in helping (as usual) but sang for us the entire time.

Friday night we went with Uncle Jay, Miss Lynette and Jordan to the Astros game. We had so much fun (although the Astros are horrible). The kids (well not Marlie she was terrified) got to take a picture with the Astros...rabbit??? I'm not really sure what that is. Why a rabbit? Anyway...Uncle Jay took the kids to play and on their way back down to our seats guess who caught a foul ball? Uncle Jay!! I think he pushed a grandpa and his granddaughter out of the way (just kidding), but Matt has his first foul ball!! Everyone was high fiving him on the way down. He was pumped! The kids made it through the entire game and we watched a great fireworks show at the end. Thank you Uncle Jay...we had a blast!

Our game got cancelled on Saturday due to rain. Matt's face was so sad. He loves baseball. But Sunday morning we headed down to the Children's Festival with our friends. The kids had so much fun!! It was Annie's birthday so we sang happy birthday during lunch and just went crazy. Of course now we're broke because they charged a fortune for everything. I'm surprised they didn't charge us to use the nasty port-o-potties. That was a first experience for Marlie and luckily I was able to convince myself and her that it was okay to go potty in there. Here are Melissa and I with the kids watching the Big Top Show...

The kids had a blast on the swings. Marlie loved it too. The boys LOVED racing down the slide. The girls were a little more scared. Heck after the rodeo slide I bailed out and forced Jenny to go down with the girls.